Video
breeze blocks
2025
Digital collage and spoken text excerpt from my larger research project on architecture in the Caribbean. Images sourced from Sucking Salt and my own archive.
Video
No Man Can Curse
2023
Digital collage and poetry detailing a spiritual journey, of sorts. Filmed along the NW coast in Jamaica. Sounds by Cole Roberts.
Painting
terra nullius
Oil on canvas
40 x 36”
2023
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Video
Unattained (Not an Easy Road)
2022
Looped performance and poem filmed at Boulder Field in Lake Harmony, PA. Sounds by Cole Roberts.
Alissa Roach
Contact
InstagramAlissa Roach (b. Kingston, Jamaica) is a writer and artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Through text, video, painting and spoken word she explores ideas of ‘home’ from a migrant perspective – reminders of home, missing home, what it means to build a home, what it means to leave, and what it means to return. Her writing often interrogates institutions and lingers within artists’ gestures; her articles and essays have been featured in The Philadelphia Plain Dealer, Parentheses Review and sx salon (upcoming, June). She holds an MA in Writing from the Royal College of Art in London, and a BFA in Sculpture from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia.
Education
Tyler School of Art, Temple University
Philadelphia, PA
BFA Sculpture
2022
Royal College of Art
London, UK
MA Writing
2025
Published Text
“Saltwater”
Parentheses Review
May 2026
“Calder Gardens vs The U-Haul Gallery” Philadelphia Plain Dealer
November 2025
“Why Does the Art Museum Need a Mascot?” Philadelphia Plain Dealer
October 2025
Last Updated 04.07.2026
Alissa Roach (b. Kingston, Jamaica) is a writer and artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Through text, video, painting and spoken word she explores ideas of ‘home’ from a migrant perspective – reminders of home, missing home, what it means to build a home, what it means to leave, and what it means to return. Her writing often interrogates institutions and lingers within artists’ gestures; her articles and essays have been featured in The Philadelphia Plain Dealer, Parentheses Review and sx salon (upcoming, June). She holds an MA in Writing from the Royal College of Art in London, and a BFA in Sculpture from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia.
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